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• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  benefits from moving on to a university, whether it is MIT or wherever else ... "toughest to get into." And where is MIT on the lists of "School Runs Like ... interests while admitting or is it only the marks on paper and olympiads that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  finished in January. I have a lot of neurons to image on the confocal ... Worlds. Ben forgot to mention the major plotline of the movie in which ... exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  of harm's way; check out the banking facilities, check to see which ... If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can ... reveal the deepest secrets of the X-Knot to us. So, the idea is that ... American children's songs to which either Joe or I do not know all the words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a ... bakery on the way to work.    I showered quickly, put on one of my ... you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... Cambridge that are my favorite places to walk around or visit. MIT is quite

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... service to get help. I was clearly not alone, as there is always an army of ... ! 8. The absolute best memory of airplane food is flying from Taipei to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I ... . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT ... restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for which Boston is famous. My parents have done it two or three times while I ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  won't be embarassed posting pictures of it on the Internet), this is ... of them, so I'll fill you in on the details later. Right now, I want to ... recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  very first student representative to the CAP [Committee on Academic ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  way out, I beheld a wonder of creative marketing. The sign is to be read ... blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your ... wonderful! Classes have started! REX happened! Politics is happening! Blogging is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The ... [/annotation], which is a full-semester version of 6.0001. However, I stayed in 6 ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan ... Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  THE PAST 15 YEARS. Honestly, what is there to catch up on? The catching ... admired were fired or placed on leave for various forms of trainee abuse. 3 ... a hard-ass (which, to a certain extent, is true). It took me a long

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... place anybody in four generations of my family came from is Indiana. (I ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  experience the technology, hands on. Our goal is to make genetic engineering ... algae cells that convert carbon dioxide to fuel, biocementation bacteria ... material -- sets out not simply to educate but to also be part of the early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  is its physical character. We’re used to thinking of wealthy ... Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in ... took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  on how important it is to rest. It's a nice change of environment and ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 've been to DC three times before this summer: once on a middle school field

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024